ITTLE FAT BOY/RA

SCARE SHEET: LITTLE FAT BOY/RA

Sir,
Drake Thomas (previously known as Little Fat Boy but now apparently called Ra) is one of the most powerful as well as one
of the most enigmatic aces in the world today. Given that he has blown up, literally, three times and he spent considerable
time in a government research facility, it’s frightening how much we don’t know about him. Will there be a fourth explosion?
What can be done to channel his power constructively? What are his political and geopolitical ambitions? Is Sekhmet (the
ace who shares his body; see SCARE Sheet: Sekhmet the Destroyer) a restraining influence on Drake, or a destructive
influence?
It should be the highest priority to discover the answer to these questions. Exactly how to do this remains uncertain.
Shielded within Drake’s private kingdom of Old Egypt, where he and Sekhmet rule over a population that is perhaps ninety-
five percent wild carders, we don’t even know what other aces may be up their sleeves. In any case a fourteen-year-old boy
with a perhaps unlimited atomic arsenal under his control should be high on someone’s list.
Jamal Norwood
SCARE operative

HISTORY
Drake Thomas is thirteen years old, a short, fat, little boy who
loves video games and junk food, when he’s discovered naked
and confused at ground zero of a nuclear blast that destroyed
his small hometown of Pyote, located in southwest Texas.
He’s taken to a government facility in southern New Mexico
known as BICC (the Biological Isolation and Containment
Center), a laboratory studying wild carders as well as a
prison holding some of the most dangerous (and insane) ace
villains.
Drake has no memory of what caused the blast, of the blast
itself, or of how he survived. He just wants someone to
take him back to his parents. Treated like a prisoner by the
BICC administration, he sinks into a depression alleviated
only slightly when he makes friends with Niobe Winslow
(Genetrix), a trustee who smuggles him junk food and a
Game Boy.
Eventually, using psychological tricks (like abruptly informing
Drake that his parents and siblings are all dead) and potent
drugs, the doctors break through his defenses and remove his
memory block. They are horrified when they learn that not
only did he survive the nuclear explosion, but Drake Thomas
caused it. Without informing him, they inject Drake with the
Trump virus, but it has no effect on the boy, so they recom-
mend euthanasia. When higher authorities don’t agree to kill
Drake immediately, BICC sets up a carbon monoxide feed
into the boy’s room to be able to asphyxiate him quickly if the
need ever arises.
Winslow, who has also become disenchanted with life at
BICC, discovers this euthanasia order and together they break
out of the facility, inadvertently releasing half a dozen of the
most dangerous prisoners in the top security section of the
prison. The villains provide sufficient cover for them to make
good their escape.
With SCARE on their trail, Drake and Niobe trek through
New Mexico by foot, occasionally thumbing a ride or acquir-
ing a vehicle to help them along the way. Eventually they reach
Cross Plains, Texas, during Barbarian Days, the celebration of
Robert E. Howard and his fictional creations. A surreal fight
occurs between local police, SCARE agents Billy Ray, Lady
Black, Moon, and Midnight Angel, against The Amazing
Bubbles (an acquaintance of Winslow who takes their part
when she learns the government has plans to kill Drake),

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Name: Drake Thomas WC Name: “Little Fat Boy” and Ra
(in Old Egypt)
Occupation: Currently ruler of Old Egypt, a small nation
in what was once southernmost Egypt
Base: Originally Pyote, Texas; currently Cyrene, Old Egypt
WC Status: Ace Ethnicity: Caucasian
Niobe and her ace children, and Drake. They escape SCARE’s
clutches, but fall into Noel Matthews’s.
The British spy whisks them away from danger, ultimately
to his Cambridge estate where they meet Matthews’s dying
father, and live for a while as one big happy family. But
Matthews’s complicated plans are unraveling. He returns
home at one point to discover that other operatives of the
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Order of the Silver Helix have kidnaped Drake. John Bruckner
(the Highwayman) takes Drake to Nigeria and dumps him
right in front of an armored column of the army of the People’s
Paradise of Africa, which, for complicated political purposes,
the British government wants to destroy. And they’ve found
their weapon in “Little Fat Boy.”
For the second time Drake detonates. This time he kills thou-
sands.
Matthews, once a loyal British agent, goes rogue. Guessing the
source of television reports of a nuclear explosion in Nigeria,
Matthews (in his Bahir form) teleports to the scene hoping
to retrieve Drake. The field marshal of the PPA army, Tom
Weathers (the Radical), has already recovered Drake from the
blast zone and is gaining his trust. Unable to wrest the boy
from Weathers (especially after Drake decides to throw in
with Weathers and the PPA), Matthews kidnaps the mad ace’s
beloved daughter, Sprout, and arranges an exchange: Drake
for Sprout.
Matthews sets New Orleans as the site for the exchange. Aces
from the Committee somewhat unwillingly back him up and
Billy Ray and SCARE show up with another dozen aces to join
the fun. Over two dozen aces (and an army of zombies) are
arrayed against the Radical. It might not be enough.
Weathers appears with Drake and the exchange is made. He
zips away with Sprout, but returns immediately and, before
anyone can stop him, flings his heavy peace medallion hard
enough to embed it in the boy’s chest. Sekhmet anticipates
what’s going to happen. She tears herself from John Fortune’s
head and enters the wound in Drake’s chest, but can’t stop him
from detonating. The Amazing Bubbles embraces him, and,
almost impossibly, absorbs the might of Drake’s atomic blast,
saving New Orleans. Bubbles, squashed into a crater in his-
toric Jackson Square, becomes grotesquely, inhumanly fat.
She’s comatose, but Drake and everyone else is all right.
Sekhmet bonds with Drake. She has found a vessel with the
power of Ra that can combine with her own. Drake has found
someone to counsel him in his new role as ruler of Old Egypt,
a new nation in what was once southern Egypt, which the
quarter million survivors of the attempted genocide settle as
their new homeland. A year after the events of New Orleans
he is taller, somewhat slimmer, and studies hard every day so
he can grow to be a wise ruler.
PERSONALITY
Before his card turned Drake spent most of his free time play-
ing video games. He’s basically a quiet, generally likable nerd.
Now he lives with the knowledge that he (unintentionally)
killed his entire family, hometown, and thousands of African
soldiers, and was almost tricked into destroying New

ITTLE FAT BOY/RA

LITTLE FAT BOY/RA POWER LEVEL 20

STRENGTH STAMINA AGILITY DEXTERITY FIGHTING INTELLECT AWARENESS PRESENCE
0 0 0 1 0 1 1 0
POWERS DEFENSE
Nuclear Blast: Cloud Area 11 (2-mile radius) Damage 20 (heat, Dodge 2 Fortitude 2
light, radiation), Tiring, Uncontrolled (triggered by extreme
emotional stress) • 200 points Parry 2 Toughness 0
Radiation Resistant: Immunity 2 (Radiation) • 2 points Will 4

SKILLS COMPLICATIONS
Expertise: Video Games 4 (+5), Perception 2 (+3) Motivation—Safety: Drake doesn’t want to be a hero. He just
wanted himself and those he cares about to be safe—from him
ADVANTAGES and from everyone else.
None Youth: Drake has the physical, mental, legal and experiential
shortcomings of being a child.
OFFENSE
Abilities 6 + Powers 202 + Advantages 0 + Skills 3 + Defenses
INITIATIVE +0 9 = 220
Nuclear Blast — Close, Cloud Area Damage 20
Unarmed +0 Close, Damage 0 zero. Drake is immune to the effects of his own blast, and also
to damaging radiation from any source.
Orleans. It is not an easy burden to bear, though Sekhmet
(an experienced and powerful ace who had much personal
sadness in her life) tries to guide him through this and all
ALLIES
After his immediate family dies, the only trustworthy friends
difficulties he faces.
Drake Thomas develops are Niobe Winslow and, by exten-
He takes his job of ruler of Old Egypt seriously and is deter- sion, Noel Matthews and The Amazing Bubbles. Once he
mined to be a good ruler to the mostly joker population of his bonds symbiotically with Sekhmet, she, the Living Gods, and
small nation.. the populace of Old Egypt becomes his allies.

POWERS & ABILITIES ENEMIES

When frightened, Drake can cause a small atomic explo-
Initially the United States government, especially their repre-
sion (the size of a terrorist’s suitcase bomb: three-to-five
sentatives at BICC, count as his enemies. Currently Egypt and
kiloton yield), pretty much devastating everything else in a
the rest of the Caliphate have dark misgivings about him and
couple-mile radius. The blast produces almost no downwind
Sekhmet, but the two of them present a formidable deterrent
fallout, and raised radiation levels are confined to ground
to any threat the Caliphate can mount.

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